NFS is a must for Ignite server?

[Mihails Nikitins]

Hi,

Is NFS the only solution for transferring recovery images to/from Ignite server? This way is not secure enaugh, it would be nice to do everything with ssh.

Thanks and points in advance!

BR,
Mihails

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom,

Yes. You need to host your images on an NFS share.

http://docs.hp.com/en/IUX/

bonus:
How to recover with Ignite and preserve mirroring
http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-5845/5991-5845.pdf

make_net_recovery can write to local disk and then you can scp the image across the network. To boot and restore the system you need NFS share.

SEP

[Bob Ingersoll]

Steven,

How does one use make_net_recovery to write to a local disk?

Also, NFS is not required to boot and restore an Ignite client.

[Scot Bean]

I belive the only other protcols supported today are ftp or remsh.

[Bill Hassell]

> How does one use make_net_recovery to write to a local disk?

If you mean: write the Ignite image on the system you are saving, it doesn't make any sense. The purpose of Ignite is to restore an empty disk so there is nothing (of any value) on the local disk.

> Also, NFS is not required to boot and restore an Ignite client

No. NFS is a very complicated protocol and your dead system cannot contact any type of network filesystem. Instead, your dead system will use low level tftp codes to find the Ignite server. These queries are not orutable which is why your Ignite server (or a helper system) is required to serve the Igbite images.

[Mihails Nikitins]

Thank you, Bill.
You say NFS is not needed to boot the system. Is NFS necessary to create image on a remote server by "make_network recovery"?

Thanks and points in advance!

BR,
Mihails

[Bill Hassell]

No, NFS os used primarily for Golden Images where you can push a basic installation to one or more systems, for instance, in a classroom situation.

[Bill Hassell]

No, NFS is used primarily for Golden Images where you can push a basic installation to one or more systems, for instance, in a classroom situation.